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the weaker growing signal , technicians can already see something going on and fix it so the issue doesn ' t occur in the future .
“ We want to make sure that those types of processes become more and more automated and more self-healing . This way , our preventive network should also become self-healing . To give an example of that : As we have a redundant network , we will have future possibilities where in case of damaged cables , we can switch over automatically from one cable to another so that the other cable will pick up the traffic . When we have maintenance planned in the area of the damaged cable , we can carry out the reparations . This means we do not have to send out a technical team every time a cable is damaged , but we can plan that during moments our team would already be in place for the scheduled maintenance works . This way , we see possibilities to work more efficiently after we have automated this part of our network ,” said van den Berg .
To end up with a network that is completely autonomous , van den Berg suggests they will “ need to take it two or three or four steps further . For this network transition , we need different technologies in the architecture , different vendors , different companies that help us to create that .”
With the Netherlands being a small country and not able to invent new technologies “ on a daily basis ,” van den Berg says the key is to be a “ smart integrator ,” with “ data as an essential building block for us in that whole ecosystem to integrate smart technologies together with us , and making sure we build our autonomous networks for the future ”.
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